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We have read thy petition, wherein thou desirest leave to be given thee to purge that temple which is fallen down at Leontopolis, in the Nomus of Heliopolis, and which is named from the country Bubastis; on which account we cannot but wonder that it should be pleasing to God to have a temple erected in a place so unclean, and so full of sacred animals.
Another heresy, which for a time made even as much noise as the last, was that of Hieracas of Leontopolis.
Professor Flinders Petrie has recently discovered remains at Tell-el-Yehoudiyeh, the "mound of the Jews," near the ancient Leontopolis, which tally with the description of Josephus, and may be presumed to be the ruins of the temple.
"His name is Jesus, and he is said to have passed his childhood in the Egyptian towns Heliopolis and Leontopolis." "Then he must be a magician or wizard; can he not come and divert me?" "It is difficult to find him, for he is now in one place, now in another. But we will question the High Priest; I have had him called, and he waits below." "Why is there this commotion in the court of the Temple?"
On the other hand, he inserts into the history of the Maccabean brothers an account of the foundation of a Temple by Onias V in Leontopolis, in the Delta of Egypt, and describes at length the negotiations that led up to it; and in the same connection he narrates a feud between the Jewish and Samaritan communities at Alexandria in the days of Ptolemy Philometor. XII. ix. 7.
"Heliopolis, from which both Greeks and Romans have derived their wisdom; Plato himself has been here." "Can Leontopolis also be seen from here?" "You see the pinnacles of its temple two miles northward."
Sidon rose again from her ashes, and recovered a certain amount of prosperity. She held the coast from Leontopolis to Ornithonpolis, and possessed also the dependency of Dor; but she had lost Sarepta to Tyre, which stepped into the foremost place among the cities on her fall, and retained it until destroyed by Alexander.
Onias was elevated with this prediction, and wrote the following epistle to Ptolemy and Cleopatra: "Having done many and great things for you in the affairs of the war, by the assistance of God, and that in Celesyria and Phoenicia, I came at length with the Jews to Leontopolis, and to other places of your nation, where I found that the greatest part of your people had temples in an improper manner, and that on this account they bare ill-will one against another, which happens to the Egyptians by reason of the multitude of their temples, and the difference of opinions about Divine worship.
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